Life Manual Quotes

#1. The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life
to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.

Paul Evdokimov

#3. Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Anne Lamott

#4. There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

Albert Camus

#5. God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

Elizabeth George

#6. But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!"
Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. I turned back looking far away not making contact with anyone and I paced to my room with tears in my eyes, solitude in my heart and nuisance in my mind. I locked my door, rested in bed and slept while still desperate.

Shaikh Ashraf

#8. I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Mike Tyson

#9. For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

James Madison

#10. Modern life cannot be constructed on ... physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

Fernand Point

#13. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. How many people can pick up a book and find an instruction manual for their life?

Michael Lewis

#15. This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.

Lauren Myracle

#16. Life's a video game stuck on hardest, no way to save, and no extra lives. Worst part? No manual either. - Marlon Samson

Ashleigh D.J. Cutler

#17. YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?

Andrew Smith

#18. The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Seamus Heaney

#19. We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

David Ben-Gurion

#20. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

#21. Life with the Guru - there is no manual.

Art Hochberg

#22. I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

Cliff Curtis

#23. God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

Rick Warren

#24. Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#25. Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Daniel Goldstein

#26. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

Faye Snyder

#27. Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

Richard Carlson

#28. Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

Ian Frazier

#29. Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand